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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

google take away the bar at the top of your screen to give you back some space with the brand new way to navigation google. i think all a lot better then it is the way now. but let us know what you think about it in the comments.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

We have just launch a chatroom that everyone can join and talk tech with us. But we want to help you with your tech as well as just talk tech and you can join the chat easily by going to irc.technewscanada.ca which will take you to a chat

Late last year, the search giant blocked instant search and auto-complete for torrent searches, now they will block them all together. Is it a coincidence, with SOPA, the bill introduced into the House of Representatives in late October, is close to being passed on to the Senate?

Is Google running scared, and trying to stay out of the line of fire, from angry SOPA supporters?

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the European High Court overturned a ruling of a Belgian court, ordering a Belgian ISP to filter "ALL" it's internet traffic to prohibit peer-2-peer file sharing, on the grounds of it violating fundamental rights of the customers that are protected by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.

hmmm....

I like the European system better.

Wonder what our Canadian governments next move will be. Will Mr. Harper allow for such violation of fundamental rights to happen, and cozy up to the Canadian music and film industries, or protect the citizens of this country from harm.

This is obviously a very touchy subject for many, including myself. Time, and many letters and e-mails to your MLA's will tell.

The human rights group China Labor Watch (CLW) has reported a day-long strike by 1000 workers at a Jingyuan Computer Group plant that supplies Apple, amongst other western technology companies, with components such as keyboards.

The strike ended up being dispursed by police and a riot squad.

The rioters protested the work conditions and the amount of overtime (up to 200 hours), amongst other things. The company now has agreed to cut mandatory overtime hours and allow workers to come into work on Saturdays, which by Chinese law are mandatory overtime days.

China's labor movement still has a long way to go to reach equality with western work standards, but I am glad to see the positive outcome of this strike.

Way to go my Chinese brothers and sisters. From one union brother to another! In solidarity!

Thursday, November 24, 2011

I Almost didn't write this column as Richard recently covered this, but I'm going to anyway as some things are a bit different. Today I'm gonna cover neat stuff I also found at the Dollar Store.In my first photo I show a nice case I got for $2. Inside the case I keep my Kindle and a handier stand (I find) that folds out large enough for the Kindle as well as an iPad.This arrangement I find handy as I am constantly piling stuff on my tabletop and can better protect the screen. Dollar stores are a treasure trove and I have several items I can show in future that may delight and amaze you in future columns.

we have also just roll out a reddit for our podcast where you can submit story and vote them up and down for the podcast so we know what you like to hear about on the podcast you can get to it by going to reddit.technewscanada.ca

we like to have some story for the podcast that we will be recording later today
thank you

Yesterday I reported on The BigFishGames subscription app debut on the app store.

For reasons unknown, even to BigFishGames, Apple pulled the app from the App store after only one day, according to a MacRumors article.

BigFish founder Paul Thelen seemed surprised as well, saying that Apple and BigFish Games had been working together for the past few weeks, making sure all the requirements would be met, which they were.

Apple declined to comment to Bloomberg, who did the story, and also had not reported back to BigFish Games on why the app was pulled.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

I picked up this story from the fine folks at Gizmodo, and I damn near fell out of my chair laughing. There is not much of a tech connection, other than Tom Anderson (everyone's first friend on MySpace) being involved (well, kinda ...).
The Maury Povich Show, as most everyone will know, showcases the tragedies of today's single parenting and the denial of sexual contact by young males with young single mothers. (took me a while to come up with this G-rated version)

Back to the story:
This guy accuses Tom Anderson to be the father of his girlfriends child, because the infant has blue eyes and a fair complexion. I guess that covers a lot of people, but Tom Anderson was her first friend, and only white dude, on her MySpace friend list! That sealed it for this young fellow, and of they went to the Maury Show, for all of our entertainment.

The obvious punch line here is, that Tom Anderson is the first friend everyone has on MySpace. Hence, let's hope that cute little baby does not get his smarts from his daddy (unless it really was Tom).

The BC based gaming company, Electronic arts (EA), has been hit with a class action law suit over a broken promise to it customers (those using PS3's).

When EA opened up pre-orders for Battle Field 3, they promised a copy of Battle Field 1943 to their PS3 customers, along with the game. Playstation 3 uses Blu-Ray disks, which offer extra storage capacity to allow for these kind of extras for Sony console owners.

Later on, it was quietly decided to scrap the idea of including the extra game, without notifying the customers, especially those who pre-ordered and promised the extra game.

At one point EA announced it's decision with a single tweet, but not with a company press release, which it should have.

Needless to say, a class action suit was started against EA never mind all the angry basement gamers screwed out of their free game.

Walt Disney Corp. and YouTube struck a deal, which will bring hundreds of movies to YouTube, according to this TechCrunch article.

Disney is the fourth major player to partner with YouTube, following Sony, Universal and Warner Brothers, who are already offering their movies through YouTube.

The rentals will start as low as $1.99 for older movies, while newer ones will run you $4.99. You will be able to watch them online, through Android phone or tablet, or Google TV (in the US and Canada only).

Big Fish Games will offer a subscription for games on the App store, according to this article on the Bloomberg website.

The subscription model, which has only been used by news publications, will cost $4.99 to start. Next year, as more game titles become available, the price is set to go up to $6.99. A cost-free, ad supported model, will also be available, all though it will be limited to 30 minutes of game play per day.

Now that the holiday are almost here I have notic that google has start a big push for chromebooks with a ad at the top of the chrome start page if you have the app/most visited website as you homepage for chrome.

Were now making it even easyer to subscibe to our podcast in your iTunes with a brand new Url to get to our itunes page. all you will need to do is goto iTunes.technewscanada.ca. so we hope that now we made it easy that hope to have you download all our podcast from the feed. also if you want to listen to our podcast on the web you can do that by click the podcast button on the top of this page or by going to Podcast.technewscanada.ca.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Now thatGoogle Musichas finally clawed its way out of the realm of beta-ware, anybody in the US can sign up to play without an invitation. Of course, that leaves many folks out of the equation, so we thought it a good time to point out at least one other route to let you get involved in the service, no matter where you live. See, the rub seems to be that Google checks your IP address on your first attempt to log in, and accept its terms of use -- only the first time, and yeah, you're definitely going to be ignoring that doc by following this guide.

Loud Crow Interactive, a development firm based in Vancouver, BC has developed an interactive "A Charlie Brown Christmas" app for the iPad/iPhone. Your kids can play Schroeder's piano, or finger paint with the crew amongst other things.

The $6.99 app is available at the app store now, and would be a nice Christmas activity to do with your little ones (just after watching the actual 1965 TV special).

A TEDtalks video of 12 year old speaker, named Thomas Suarez, went viral on YouTube this week. This twelve year old, who's idol is Steve Jobs, is a self taught programmer of iOS apps, including "Bustin Jeiber", a whack-a-mole game using the Canadian pop stars face. :)

I love this kinda story, which negates all the comments and rants you here in the media, about computers and the internet making our children stupid.

Please take the time and watch the video. Thomas is quite an amazing speaker as well.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Today i when out looking for a great iPad stand for when i sitting in my office or laying in bed for my alarm clock apps.

Then i happen to be in one of my local dollar store a saw that they had some case and stand for the iPad so I pick one up for dirty cheap it was like 2 bucks and it really dose a lot. So if your for some great tech stuff check out your local dollar and see what you can find.

Thank for reading today

Please tell us know in the comment what great deals and proud have you found out there these holiday month?

Thursday, November 10, 2011

In celebration of my recent birthday, my wife bought me a new Amazon Kindle. At first I sort of poopooed these devices as shill. But now after having one for a week or so, I'm in lust. Works great here in my home network and gives me another toy to fill the hours i'm forced to live through with my lack of mobility.
I'm getting back to my favorite magazines via it, Asimovs science fiction, Analog sci fi and Amazing stories. Three magazines that made being a low-paid security guard bearable. I haven't bought into the book buying yet, but i'm sure I'll enjoy that when i try it out. The magazines are worth the money. More later for now, i've just got 5 new issues.

This is the first article I'm submitting to Technewscanada so I'll introduce myself first and go from there. My name is really Rob Scott, I've been into computers since the late 80's when i bought an Atari 800XLL on clearance at Zellers and I've been hooked ever since.

Later, after learning to add a HDD to it and running a BBX for a few years i graduated to using an IBM compatible for the BBS. I took a few courses and realized I had learned more on my own, and got a job at Netland computers in Ottawa. Hired right out of school.
Now I'm retired because of a disability and spend most of my time fooling around with this "internet" thing. So with all that said hope to help others understand it as well. This might be a great way to start.

So today i when in the app store and did a search for AOL and found the app AOL Editions. Which is a daily news app that give you once a day some of the top store. Now you think that it would be all AOL stuff but the are a number of diffident source that are not related to AOL

Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Google has added their +1 button to image searches.You can now share your recommendations for a particular image by hovering the mouse cursor over it, which will make a +1 appear. Your selection will appear in your G+ and Google profile.

Not only can you now share images, but you will see your friends recommendations as well.

While this is a little easier to do on jail broken phones with a tweek from Cydia, the guys from Funky Space Monkey came up with a fix for those of us who don't feel comfortable jail braking our phones.

Some of the new features include better tab management, twitter search, and a crack down on third party add ons. Now, when an add on wants to run, you must approve the add on. Sounds a little bit like Windows Account Control that so many people love, right? I think it's nice addition but we'll see what others think.

Firefox for Android was also updated which now includes a master password for all your usernames and passwords for the sites you visit.

Not Only did they get the iPhone 3GS phone to have siri on it the but they also got it to connect to apple server for siri. If you do not know siri not only require the software for siri but a connection to apple servers.

The case consists of a backup battery and a simple cell phone. Once you have downloaded the Vooma app it will utilize the sim card in the other phone to make a call. The backup battery will meanwhile charge your iPhone.

The case is actually the size of a regular iPhone case, which makes it so much better.

Monday, November 07, 2011

Google has announced today that they will be releasing Pages for their social network, Google+.

This will allow businesses and brands to make specialized pages for their products. Pages can have followers through the +1 system and you can add pages into your circles for better customization and organization of your favorite brands.

Google has incorporated pages into their search results. When you use Google Search, add a ‘+’ before your query and it will show you brands on Google+.

When ordering prints online, you would think it be as easy as a 1-click solution.Not so for users of iPhoto an Aperture it seems.According to this article at Apple's Knowledge Base you really have to watch what aspect ratio the image was taken in, to avoid it from being cropped unexpectedly.No one wants their wedding pictures returned with the head of the bride cut off.http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2024

Sunday, November 06, 2011

I was one of the 4 million people who pre-ordered/reserved an iPhone 4S before launch day. It took a week and a half after October 14th to finally get the phone (which felt far too long considering iOS 5 crippled my iPhone 3GS to the point of being able to squeeze out three hours of battery life if I’m lucky) and now that I have had it for about week, I can give a fair opinion about it.

There are a lot of complaints that it is not the ‘iPhone 5.’ I would like to address these complaints with a simple concern that people don’t know how to count. The iPhone 4S is the fifth iPhone, regardless of what they call it, so the people that say they are going to wait for the ‘5’ will be waiting a very, very long time because if Apple decides to give a number to their next phone, if anything it will be iPhone 6. The iPhone 4 wasn’t called the iPhone 2. I feel like I needed to address this concern front and centre because there was a lot of disappointment surrounding this phone simply because of rumors. Because of this, a lot of features were forgotten and/or left out of people’s minds and reviews.

Saturday, November 05, 2011

This is an app that let you share things our the internet with you friend online. like if you see some food that looking really good then you can add it to a to do list and then when you walk by it get a pop up on your iPhone that say you have add this to your to our to do list and maybe you want to try this out

Today were launch our web app that has all our great content in it from blog feed to our twitter and podcast check it out now at http://technewscanada.ca/app. Please Leave Us A Comment And Let Us What You Think Thanks

two days ago apple seed developer with iOS 5.0.1 beta 1 now two later there are now moving forward with beta 2. so it make me think there really trying to get this update out the door or maybe they found a bigger bug in iOS 5 then we know about

Thursday, November 03, 2011

Now that the trailer is here i really can't wait for the game to come out but I'm thinking that the game will not be out unit next year some time base on the fact we not hear anything about ship date yet.

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Talk about "iPad3" for March 2012 are still on going. Supposedly suppliers still have issues with development of a high def Retina display for the actual "iPad 3" slated for possibly 3rd quater of 2012.March iPad will most likely be an upgraded iPad 2, just like the iPhone 4S was to the iPhone 4. So mostly a software upgrade including Siri, and a major facelift 6 months (or possibly) later including "hopefully" a Retina display and better battery life.

Gmail will introduce a new look in the next view days, according to the official Google Blog.This will include a more streamline conversation view (like a chat window), changeable screen density, new HD themes, better search and more.

Watch for a button in the bottom right of your Gmail screen in the next few days to try out the improved view.